Sentences with phrase «long series of changes»

The proposal to ban EU migrants who are in work from receiving tax credits is the latest in a long series of changes which cut entitlement to social security.

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By using a series of dots, circles, dashes and stars, it's a great way to keep track of upcoming tasks, long term goals, and minute - to - minute changes.

Doing any kind of long - run macroeconomic study is difficult due to the agency either lacking the will or the resources to splice together series after definitions change.

These changes could mean even more growth, but they also represent a series of gambles for a company that has done very well by keeping things so simple for so long.

Since September 21, more than 80 % of speculative positions on bitcoin have been long... Analysts have also noted a major change in market confidence over the past two weeks, as investors looked past a series of negative news headlines involving bitcoin.

Today I am sitting listening to Ralph Merkle lecture on nanotechnology, part of a 9 - day - long series of lectures on how accelerating change in technologies of all types will affect our world.

After a series of changes this summer, for the first time, the nation's top - notch high school football prospects will no longer have to wait until February to formalize their commitments and sign with their preferred schools.

Net Change is a week - long series of events at the MaRS Centre in Toronto exploring the intersection between technology and social cChange is a week - long series of events at the MaRS Centre in Toronto exploring the intersection between technology and social changechange.

It refers us for this purpose to a long series of extremely various documents, containing many contradictions and incongruities, subject to the flow of time and change through many centuries of human existence.

Rather it is more like a long series of significant changes in our total behavior and enlightenments — changes that can be identified only in retrospect.

This post is part of a longer series in which I stated that «evangelism» is based on the word «gospel» which includes a call for changes in all areas of life.

That is, there was no conscious attempt on the part of individual reptiles to seek such biological changes, since a series of random genetic mutations (over a sufficiently long span of time) took its natural course to achieve an environmentally adaptive bird - like species.

However, with the change in year, the addition of Coppa Italia games and a series of long term injuries to Giorgio Chiellini meant that Rugani found himself getting loads of gametime as the season wore on.

In part one of our week - long series Combating Campus Crime, WBFO Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt takes a look, six months after the signing of what's called the «Enough is Enough» legislation, to see what has changed.

Cuomo, who was elected on a platform of cleaning up what he called the «Albany swamp,» also promised ethics changes on the heels of the most embarrassing and pervasive series of corruption cases the state has faced in a long time.

The move marks the latest in a series of policy changes in which the governor — whose fiscal conservatism and ties to business interests have long left progressives in his party disenchanted — has circumvented the legislative process in order to take the state in a more left - leaning direction.

The series of losses that recently shook institutions such as Barings, Sumitomo, Orange County, and Long - Term Capital Management (LTCM) was but one consequence of the enormous changes which are reshaping the FSI.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

Academy officials plan to hold a series of meetings around the country to drum up support for the report, the first step in what Lane sees as a long process of changing public attitudes.

We assess the heat content change from both of the long time series (0 to 700 m layer and the 1961 to 2003 period) to be 8.11 ± 0.74 × 1022 J, corresponding to an average warming of 0.1 °C or 0.14 ± 0.04 W m — 2, and conclude that the available heat content estimates from 1961 to 2003 show a significant increasing trend in ocean heat content.

Whilst the Final Fantasy series constantly shifts in an attempt to expand its audience, alienating many long - term fans in the process, Tales of Berseria is a love letter to Tales fans, reassuring them that the series doesn't need to change to remain relevant.

The lack of proper skin tone options have been a long controversial issue in the Animal Crossing series, but it looks as if Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is set to change that later this year based on this screenshot from the latest trailer.

Meanwhile, GT Sport «s radical change in focus is bound to alienate some long - standing fans of the series.

There's always the chance that with such a long running series that changes will be made for the sake of it and potentially not for the better.

It is odd for a longstanding series to go this long without a resounding success outside of its core demographic, especially since Capcom hasn't really changed the main crux of the game.

Final Fantasy XII is the latest in the series, and while it was a long time coming and saw its share of problems, gamers can rest assured that they have another classic FF title, even with the extensive changes.

The Pokémon series has been running for quite a long time, but it changed little since the days of Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue.

The Big C, the latest original series from Showtime, follows the life of Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney), a reserved, stifled, Minneapolis schoolteacher who receives life changing news and decides, from that moment on, to make drastic, long - overdue adjustments to the...

Only since the likes of Metroid Prime 4 is in development and Samus Returns is out this year, we've had to give the series a quick name change, but it's still the same old cast and same old Samus and because you have waited long enough, here is the Issue # 25 Special!

Federal officials have dramatically overhauled the E-rate program to prioritize expanded support for broadband and wireless connectivity, through the approval of a series of changes that have been widely hailed by education, library, technology, and industry groups as much needed and long overdue.

So rather than focus on year - year - changes or commit other sins of misNAEPery, I'm using data from the NAEP Long - Term Trend data series, which goes back to 1971 for reading and 1973 for math.

As Plunderbund notes, these newly proposed changes resurrect a series of long - standing questions of validity and credibility with regards to OTES.

A commission chaired by the City of Chicago's Comptroller issued a report earlier this week which said that Chicago can no longer afford its subsidies for government worker retiree health care, which currently cost the city $ 109 million annually but would grow to nearly $ 500 million in a decade thanks to projected increases in the number of retirees and in health care costs.The commission offered Mayor Rahm Emanuel a series of suggestions on how to change the program to save money, including having workers pay a greater percentage of their own health care premiums in retirement, but it also concluded that the city might want to simply end the subsidy program, a move which almost certainly would be challenged in court.

Issues... about Change was a series of briefing papers designed to address issues related to the implementation of comprehensive, long - term models for school reform.

Changes from the two - door 6 - series include a longer roof structure, shorter front doors, more substantial B - pillars and the addition of front - hinged rear doors.

The new 5 - Series Touring will offer a long list of features: BMW ConnectedDrive comprises, inter alia, a Parking Assistant, Surround View, collision warning with brake activation in conjunction with Active Cruise Control, Lane Change Warning, Lane Departure Warning, Speed Limit Info, High - beam Assistant, BMW Night Vision with detection of persons as well as Head - up Display.

That there was a new 5 - series last year would also give us a chance to see how all of the changes BMW made would hold up over the long haul.

It's had just as many changes, but it keeps getting infusions of new series, and in long run will probably out shine it's older brother.

Whether a genuine display of anger over the band Paul & Storm's parody song «Write Like the Wind,» which pokes fun at the long wait between books in Martin's Game of Thrones series, or just a fun contribution to the event staged to amuse the crowd, there's an underlying message that demonstrates the way readers are changing.

The Curve series has a long standing history of being a tough and cost effective line and while its seen some changes over time — now proves that to be the case more so then ever.

With old favorites such as Akira Yuki and Sarah Bryant returning along side new faces such as Jean Kujo — not to mention numerous changes to the entire roster — there is plenty to look forward to with the latest revision of this long running series.

This new entry into series has been met with favourable reviews, most of which suggest that long standing fans of the Monster Hunter series are not going to be disappointed with the changes and improvements made to this version.

Long time fans of the series may find this somewhat troubling, but once you hit chapter thirteen, that all changes.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

The changes they have made really could put this up there as the best Gran Turismo of all time - unusual for a series to get better after it has been around this long, but we've recently seen the same thing with the Super Mario series... I doubt it will receive a full 40/40 from Famitsu though, even when the full game arrives - and I certainly can't imagine any western publications / websites giving the game a score as good as this.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

It's nice to see that even when «changing the formula,» they still inserted subtle nods for long - time series fans like me — the kinds of nods that Popolo - heads will squee about, yet which remain subtle enough to keep the game completely accessible to series newcomers.

Resident Evil has been around for many years now, and a long running game franchise can be compared to a long running TV series, and when something is going wrong, there are many warning signs that pop up, including bringing in popular characters; focusing on background characters; adding new characters to try and freshen up the franchise; focusing on the family members of main characters; becoming self - aware; trying new ways to tell the story, and even changing the gameplay to try and appeal to wider audiences — it wouldn't be surprising if Capcom killed off a popular Resident Evil character soon, just to add some spice to their most well - known cash cow.

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The lack of proper skin tone options have been a long controversial issue in the Animal Crossing series, but it looks as if Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is set to change that later this year based on this screenshot from the latest trailer.